Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1916 — KITCHENER DROWNS IN NORTH SEA [ARTICLE]

KITCHENER DROWNS IN NORTH SEA

% Meets Death With Staff When Cruiser is Sunk On Way to Russia— Nation In Mounting.

London, June 6.—The news that Earl Kitchener, secretary of state for war, and his staff, who were proceeding to "Russia aboard the cruiser Hamphsire, were lost off the Orkney Islands last night, was the most stunning bk|w Great Britain has received since the war began. This is the second shock the country has sustained within a week. The other was when the newspapers appeared Friday evening with the first intelligence of the naval battle in the North Sea in the form of a list of ships lost, with virtually no intimation that there was any compensation m the way of enemy losses. The bulletin telling of the death of Kitchener gave the country even a greater shock. Kitchener was the one outstanding personality whom the people talked of and believed ,in as a great man, notwithstanding newspaper attacks, which at a former period of the war threatened to undermine his popularity and the public confidence in him. The Hampshire was sunk at about 8 p. m. last night, either by a mine or a torpedo. Four boats were seen by observers on shore to leave the ship. The wind was high and heavy seas were running. Patrol vessels and destroyers at once proceeded to the spot and a party was sent along the coast to search, but only some bodies ancl a capsized boat were found. There is little hope of there being any survi-' vor3. a ■